2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final

2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final
Event 2007 FIFA Club World Cup
Boca Juniors Milan
Argentina Italy
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Date 16 December 2007
Venue Nissan Stadium
Yokohama, Japan[1]
Man of the Match Kaká (Milan)[2]
Referee Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)[1]
Attendance 68,263[1]
Weather Clear night
8 °C (46 °F)
33% humidity

The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup Final took place at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan on 16 December 2007.

The match pitted Milan of Italy, the UEFA club champions, against Boca Juniors of Argentina, the CONMEBOL club champions. Milan won 4–2 in a match watched by 68,263 people. In doing so, Milan won their fourth FIFA Club World Cup/Intercontinental Cup and avenged their 2003 Intercontinental Cup defeat to Boca Juniors. Milan also overtook Boca Juniors, Nacional, Peñarol, Real Madrid and São Paulo as the only team to have won the competition four times. Kaká was named as man of the match.[2]

Road to final

Argentina Boca Juniors Team Italy Milan
CONMEBOL Confederation UEFA
Winner of the 2007 Copa Libertadores Qualification Winner of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League
Bye Play-off round Bye
Bye Quarter-finals Bye
1–0 Tunisia Étoile du Sahel
(Cardozo  37')		 Semi-finals 1–0 Japan Urawa Red Diamonds
(Seedorf  68')

Match

Details

16 December 2007
19:30 (UTC+9)
Boca Juniors Argentina 2–4 Italy Milan
Palacio  22'
Ledesma  85'		 Report Inzaghi  21', 71'
Nesta  50'
Kaká  61'
Boca Juniors
Milan
GK 12Argentina Mauricio Caranta
CB 20Argentina Jonathan Maidana
CB 29Argentina Gabriel Paletta YC 73'
CB 3 Paraguay Claudio Morel Rodríguez
DM 5 Argentina Sebastián Battaglia YC 55'
RM 4 Argentina Hugo Ibarra YC 40'
CM 15Uruguay Álvaro González  67'
CM 24Argentina Éver Banega
LW 19Argentina Neri Cardozo  68'
SS 14Argentina Rodrigo Palacio
CF 9 Argentina Martín Palermo (c)
Substitutes
MF 8 Argentina Pablo Ledesma Red card 88'  67'
MF 11Argentina Leandro Gracián  68'
Manager
Argentina Miguel Russo
GK 1 Brazil Dida
RB 25Italy Daniele Bonera
CB 13Italy Alessandro Nesta
CB 4 Georgia (country) Kakha Kaladze Red card 77'
LB 3 Italy Paolo Maldini (c)
CM 8 Italy Gennaro Gattuso  65'
CM 21Italy Andrea Pirlo
CM 23Italy Massimo Ambrosini YC 22'
AM 22Brazil Kaká YC 62'
AM 10Netherlands Clarence Seedorf  87'
CF 9 Italy Filippo Inzaghi  76'
Substitutes
MF 5 Brazil Émerson  65'
DF 2 Brazil Cafu  76'
MF 32Italy Cristian Brocchi  87'
Manager
Italy Carlo Ancelotti

Man of the Match:
Brazil Kaká (Milan)[2]

Assistant referees:
José Luis Camargo (Mexico)[1]
Pedro Rebollar (Mexico)[1]
Fourth official:
Mark Shield (Australia)[1]

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Twelve named substitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions.

Statistics

Overall[3]
Boca Juniors Milan
Goals scored 2 4
Total shots 17 14
Shots on target 9 7
Ball possession 49% 51%
Corner kicks 5 2
Fouls committed 22 14
Offsides 4 3
Yellow cards 3 2
Red cards 1 1

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Match Report" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Toyota Cup – Most Valuable Player of the Match Award". RSSSF. 20 December 2007. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
  3. ↑ "Match Statistics". FIFA. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

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